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Comment:On the Labour leadership
Date published: 6:12 pm, July 23rd, 2013Only the daft ' stuck in the seventies' crowd went with this - they embarrassed the party at the last conference and gave the snivelling corporate media what they wanted to attack Labour . They don't have a bolters chance of progressing their purile remit ...
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Comment:Key's multi-billion dollar earthquake bet
Date published: 5:43 pm, July 23rd, 2013"We should think as one nation" True - and the first question the nation should be asking is - exactly what happened to our $6 billion - lets see the balance sheet entries detailing who got paid when and what for - What we do know is that Nationals dodgey ...
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Comment:Len is standing again
Date published: 8:23 am, July 16th, 2013I agree - warts and all Len now has the range of skills necessary to hold the city together while it continues to adjust to the inoperable model forced on it by the excreble Rodney Hide . Hides is agenda of private ownership of city assets is dead in the ...
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Comment:How the Right makes people believe lies
Date published: 9:36 pm, July 15th, 2013Organising direct action against a socially destructive influence such as New Zealand's foreign owned media is feasible but complex . Many countries which have tied to establish genuinely free media have struggled - although there is no reason to suggest ...
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Comment:Herald launches democracy under attack campaign
Date published: 10:25 am, July 13th, 2013"Stopping Local Government Functions " Exactly - lets hear the Herald call for the sacking of Mackay and Blakely for illegally refusing to release critical information to Auckland Councillors . Both of these individuals were appointed by the odious Rodney ...
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Comment:Bob Parker is gone ...
Date published: 10:16 am, July 9th, 2013A corrupt National Party government - a National Party dominated Council - a neo-lib CEO . Fishy ? - this reeks of tory predacity
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Comment:Huge Nat u-turn on City Rail Link
Date published: 2:43 pm, June 27th, 2013Just to set the record straight TG - your percentages are a bit haywire - Len probably referenced the Regional Land Transport strategy to access the " powerful lobby " in existence long before he became Mayor . Cam Pitches at Better Transport AK -the joint...
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Comment:Huge Nat u-turn on City Rail Link
Date published: 3:25 am, June 27th, 2013To think these bloody fools tried to wind back the clock when they scuppered the AK fuel tax for the sake of some imaginary ideology makes my flesh crawl - and to those in ''the rest'' of NZ who are now paying for 'our' rail network thanks but we were ...
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Comment:Networks of influence: Lobbyists
Date published: 5:41 am, June 20th, 2013If "Information is the currency of democracy" (Thomas Jefferson ) Key's gang is clearly skint
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Comment:Why the Meridian sale will go ahead regardless of cost
Date published: 2:05 pm, May 27th, 2013Isnt it time that the real culprits for the destruction of what once passed as the 4th estate in this country were exposed to public scrutiny - the individuals on the Boards of Directors of Fairfax APN and the rest of the surrogate National Party ...
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Comment:$38 on highways for every dollar on public transport
Date published: 2:56 pm, May 21st, 2013'How dare human beings be human beings " I have to admit Im not entirely familiar with the human face of greed ,corruption ,nepotisim ,and repression - but if neo-liberalisim is simply a true expression of humanisim so be it - certainly the NACT Government...
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Comment:$38 on highways for every dollar on public transport
Date published: 12:32 pm, May 21st, 2013There is only one transport mode Neo-libs are concerned about protecting - the road transport industry which stuffed up our roads in the first place . New Zealands geology and topography was never suitable for the trans continental road transport model ...
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Comment:Frozen meat
Date published: 12:23 pm, May 21st, 2013Key like all delusional individuals has swallowed his own bullshit - he thought the Chinese liked him - he tried to leverage influence off the reputation's of real New Zealand leaders ( Rewi Alley - Helen Clarke et al ) - they have spat in his face and ...
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Comment:Take "a long short walk"
Date published: 7:49 am, May 8th, 2013Planners should think carefully how best to manage mall and supermarket carparks . Loaded trolleys + distracted pedestrians+ wandering kids+reckless drivers= un-managed death trap. Of course private owners couldn't possibly be asked to take responsibility ...
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Comment:Just get the f*ck out
Date published: 9:02 am, February 13th, 2013Prossers comments though somewhat crude underline a challenging dilemma for both Liberal and Conservative proggressives in how to identify and deal with the latent and blatant racisim present in all of us .His provocation also invites discussion of how we ...
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Comment:Why charity cannot replace the state
Date published: 8:03 am, February 5th, 2013Glenns sudden interest in the welfare of South Auckland children was always suspicious - it looked good on the knighthood CV - now he's got it to hell with them . Charity comprimises the dignity and independence of low income people by exposing them to the...
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Comment:Media Bias & Democracy II: beyond 2 sides
Date published: 11:43 am, January 25th, 2013Thanks Tony for the rare insiders insight few journalists are prepared tp speak out about the constraints placed on their independence and objectivity in New Zealands media . Clearly the effect of corporate ownership on editorial policy extant in western ...
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Comment:ImperatorFish: John Key's Reshuffle Analysed
Date published: 8:05 pm, January 23rd, 2013These National genius's dont let the grass grow under their feet - we're pretty sure Brownlee has been moonlighting in the movies - wasnt that him playing the King of the Orks in The Hobbit - and what a marvellous splattering end the King came to - pure ...
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Comment:Media Bias & Democracy II: beyond 2 sides
Date published: 8:34 am, January 23rd, 2013Your formulae of how media bias is applied can be observed daily in New Zealand and reflects the effect of Australian interest and political intent here . Given the preponderant ownership in banking retail tourisim and of course media it would seem self ...
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Comment:What's the Right's plan for Auckland 2013?
Date published: 7:09 pm, January 12th, 2013Len would have been sunk without the regional knowledge of Mike Lee and Sandra Coney . Lee and Coney provided the only brains and ability in a council dominated by a shower of clueless yobs dredged up from the old territorial authorities and an array of ...
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Comment:Federated Farmers want more urbanites
Date published: 7:16 am, January 7th, 2013Conner English was the sod who lobbied his brother for $600 m as soon as this excrable govt was elected for rural broadband . Farmeres and their families constitute 6% of NZs population Auckland desparately needed those funds to complete the CBD rail loop ...
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Comment:Bias in election coverage?
Date published: 9:36 pm, November 28th, 2012In the six week period prior to the last election virtually every hourly news bulletin on National Radio led with a Key or National Party story . This Government has interfered in state owned media at policy and editorial levels to a degree not seen since ...
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Comment:Media Medicine
Date published: 9:00 pm, November 28th, 2012OK so what about the give-aways in regional areas - usually the only print media available to rural and small town populations . These rag's are nearly all owned by Fairfax and run by National friendly hacks . Most of the regional dalies ( also Firfax or ...
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Comment:Marketing Clown
Date published: 12:58 pm, November 28th, 2012Ronald Mc Donald - How apt for a Prime Minister who's grinning visage screens the activities of the most damaging government since Muldoon's . Not unlike the real (sic) Ronald smiling and dancing while his corporation destroys the health of children .
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